Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-26
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of Gsneral Interest In q
Condensed Form.

ClackamaH county las 49,,
children. $500,
Benton county is to build $5o'oU
courthouse.
Cougar scalps bring W bounty II
Columbia county. NJ
A lodge of Odd Fellows is to be in
stituted at Ontario.
A railroad from Baker City TO Granite
creek is projected.
Sixty men are at work IN the MAJ
heur valley surveying railroad me.
The cornerstone of the new agrlcul
tural college at Corvallis will be iaio
soon.
The Freemasons of Hillsboro laic
the corner stone of the new +. OF II
brick building.
The OR. & N. Company are build
ing an iron bridge across the John Day
river on their road.
A son of VIM. Gregory, tagged four
teen years, was drowned IN Butte
creek, Jackson county.
A forest fire in the coast range de
stroyed Jones Il Co.'s sawmill at Mes
tucca and did other damage.
A German sheep-herder named De
mason. was killed by rocks rolling on
him, in the vicinity of Mount Hood.
The Douglas county fair will be held
on the fair grounds near billiards. sta.
ton, commencing September l4th and
ending the 18th.
A colony of Illinois people have pur.
chased 5000 acres of land in Hood
river valley, and will cultivate fruits
largely for outside markets.
A new and rich mineral district haa
been discovered near Joseph, Wallowa
county. Some fine marble quarriei
have been discovered there.
A twelve-year old son OF Bob Hager
of Mikecha, on the summit of the Blue
mountains, Umatilla county, died from
the effects of a rattlesnaks bite.
Since the institution of the Order OIL
Good Templars in this State, 557
lodges have been chartered up to date
OF this number only 76 are in exist
ence.
Charles Keen, teamster, employe
OF the Southern Pacific Company, was
shot fatally by G. H. Caldwell, keeper
of q dance house located in Bunch
town.
Julius Soffner, coal miner in THE
Newport mines, was buried under a
mass of coal which fell on him while
he was loading his car. He was in
stantly killed.
The Pendleton & Wallula Railroad
is graded and ready for the rails. They
are expected in few days, and the road
will be finished in time to move grain
this season.
The County Court of Benton has
refused to construct an armory for the
militia of Corvallis, holding that it ia
the States place to furnish the money
for such building.
Great excitement has been caused
in Jacksonville over rich strikes in the
mining district NEAR that city. Ore
assaying several thousand dollars per
ton has been found.
Moulds and counterfeit coins have
been found in an old cabin in the Blue
mountains. 1t is not known who left
them there. Parties in Pendleton
have them at present.
About seventy-five men are at work
on the jetty at the mouth of the Co.
lumbia river. 1t is now out 100 feet.
The results of the work up to date are
excellent, the channel being broadened
and deepened.
W. G. Hale shot and killed large
pelican from the courthouse window
with his "pea-gun that measured
eight feet five inches from tip to tip.
The bird was on the lake at distance
OF several hundred yards.
The Farmers Alliance, having head
Quarters at Lexington, and composed
OF about 900 members, recently made
freight proposition to the Oregon Pa
clfic so satisfactory to the company
that the road, supposed to be building
to junction with the Chicago 1
Northwestern, will probably take in
Lexington on the way.
"A cougar broke into calf pen of
VIM. Mellinger, of VERONA, and took
away three-months' old calf, proba-
bly, weighing 200 pounds. The cougar
had to Jump six-rail fence in getting
away, and it only knocked off one rail
temporary connection of the tele-
graph line between Coos bay and Rose
burg has been effected at Coos City by
running wire over the slough at a
sufhclent height to allow vessels to
pass under, A new cable for the
slough is expected shortly.
The body of VIM. G. Hathaway. q
druggist of Halsey, was found in H.